Have breakfast with Maha Dakhil; Co-Head of the Motion Picture Group and board member of leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA).
Maha Dakhil serves as Co-Head of the Motion Picture Group and Co-Head of the agency’s International Film Group. She also serves on the CAA Board that is responsible for the day-to-day management of the agency. An 18-year veteran of the agency, Dakhil has long been at the forefront of cultivating opportunities for diverse talent and championing underserved voices and their stories. Dakhil is a founding member of Time’s Up, an initiative that addresses systemic inequality and injustice in the workplace.
She is a champion for underrepresented storytellers, creating opportunities for them to transition into the global marketplace. Dakhil also serves on the boards of Baby2Baby and the UCLA Lab School. She began her career at Genesis, a literary agency. Dakhil graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in sociology.
Dakhil has a diverse client list, most notably Gina Prince-Bythewood, whom she locked to helm The Woman King, a historical epic about female African warriors that debuted at No. 1 at the box office in September. She has guided Reese Witherspoon in building out her female-focused multiplatform prodco Hello Sunshine (Where the Crawdads Sing and Emmy-winning Apple TV+ series The Morning Show), which opened an unscripted division in London in August.
Clients include Tom Cruise, Mindy Kaling, Madonna, Lena Dunham, Ava DuVernay, Sam Mendes, Natalie Portman, Yorgos Lanthimos, Olivia Wilde, Aaron Sorkin, Denis Villeneuve, Steve McQueen, Lenny Abrahamson, Danny Strong and Anne Hathaway. She recently signed Higher Ground, Michelle and former President Barack Obama’s prodco.
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